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Breaking the safety barrier : engineering new paradigms in safety design

- Culvenor, John

  • Authors: Culvenor, John
  • Date: 1997
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: Occupational health and safety legislation in Australia and internationally is based on the safe place concept and the hierarchy of control. A safe place is best achieved at the design stage and consequently the education of engineers in safety has been a priority. There have been notable efforts at the integration of safety with engineering studies, and this should be an ongoing objective, however extensive integration is likely to be difficult at least in the short term. The challenge was to develop a supplemental, innovative way to improve the ability of engineers to develop safe place solutions. The hypothesis was that training in creative thinking would achieve this aim. The hierarchy of control methodology shares a strong relationship with creative thinking. Safe place thinking challenges assumptions in the same way that creative thinking seeks to escape dominant paradigms. For this reason creative thinking seems a natural aid to the safe place approach. This study tested the effect on safety design of a creative thinking program; de Bono’s six thinking hats method. Given a recognition that groups other than engineers impact on workplace design, a range of subjects were included; engineering students, technology students, industry safety advisers, and government safety advisers. In response to safety case studies, subjects were required to generate solutions and to prioritize potential solutions. Subjects worked on a range of problems, some individually and some in teams of three. Results show that training in creative thinking improved the generation of solutions to safety problems. As the number of solutions increased, the average quality of ideas was maintained, therefore the increased number of solutions was accompanied by a similar increase in good quality safe place solutions. The results also showed in some instances the training improved the prioritization of solutions according to the safe place methodology. The effects were of a similar magnitude for individuals and teams. Creative thinking training was shown to be a useful way to enhance the generation of safe place solutions to safety problems. Given that creative thinking skills can theoretically be applied to any area of problem solving, the enhancement of these skills are likely to yield wider benefits. Furthermore the enhancement of creative thinking accords well with the current industrial mandates for improved innovation.
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

The effectiveness of team-based approaches to improving health and safety : case studies from Australian industry in the 1990's

- Borys, David

  • Authors: Borys, David
  • Date: 1997
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: "Using case studies from Australian industry, the aim of this research project is to study team members' and their customers perceptions of the effectiveness of team approaches to inmproving health and safety, and to identify the organisational and team factors that may enhance effectiveness."
  • Description: Master of Applied Science

The psychological and physical health benefits associated with the human-pet bond

- Best, Christina Rose

  • Authors: Best, Christina Rose
  • Date: 1997
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: A sample of adults was surveyed to investigate the physical and psychological health benefits of pets.
  • Description: Master of Applied Science (Psychology)

The role of grief resolution in a cognitive-behavioural rehabilitation program for chronic pain

- Ledwich, Joan

  • Authors: Ledwich, Joan
  • Date: 1997
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: The aim of the study was to examine to what extent the role of a grief resolution program component would enhance a concurrent cognitive program in the treatment of pain.
  • Description: Master of Applied Science (Psychology)

Addressing specific individual learning needs

- Kuzmich, Karolina

  • Authors: Kuzmich, Karolina
  • Date: 1998
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: Master of Education

Analysis and methods in nonsmooth and nonconvex optimization

- Xu, Huifu

  • Authors: Xu, Huifu
  • Date: 1998
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "The purpose of this thesis is to propose, by a variety of techniques from nonsmooth and convex analysis, numerical methods for the solution of nonsmooth equations and nonconvex minimization problems arising in mathematical programming, economics, engineering, and sciences."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

An evaluation of rehabilitation in the home : client, carer and staff perspectives

- Dow, Briony

  • Authors: Dow, Briony
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: "This study is a process evaluation of the Ballarat Health Services Rehabilitation in the Home Program (RHP)"
  • Description: Master of Arts

An evaluation of tactical transfer from volleyball to badminton using a games classification approach

- Jones, Christopher M.T.

  • Authors: Jones, Christopher M.T.
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: Master of Applied Science (Human Movement)

An investigation into commercially feasible applications of ellagic acid and its derivatives

- Przewloka, Simon

  • Authors: Przewloka, Simon
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "Significant quantities of ellagic acid and its metal salts, in the form of waste byproducts, are readily available from both the pulping and tanning industries should a feasible commercial use for the acid (1) be found. The purpose of this work was to prepare key derivatives of ellagic acid and assess their feasibilty for use on a commercial scale. To accomplish this, it was first necessary to prepare ellagic acid in high yield."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Creative thinking and OHS committees in the NSW construction industry (1998/99) / Gerard F. Ayers

- Ayers, Gerard

  • Authors: Ayers, Gerard
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: School of Science & Engineering
  • Description: Thesis (Master of Applied Science)

Developing a spiritual health and life-orientation measure for secondary school students

- Fisher, John

  • Authors: Fisher, John
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: Paper presented at Research with a regional/rural focus : proceedings of the University of Ballarat inaugural annual conference, Mt. Helen: Victoria 15th October, 1999 p. 57-63
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  • Description: The problem posed in this project was the development of an instrument to give a balanced assessment of young people’s spiritual health. Spiritual health is a dynamic state of being, which can be reflected in how well people relate in up to four domains of human existence, namely with themselves; with others; with the environment; and/or with a Transcendent Other. A convenience sample of 850 secondary students in State, Catholic, Christian Community and other independent schools in Ballarat and western suburbs of Melbourne were surveyed during 1999 to determine how important they considered each of the four sets of relationships to be for an ideal state of spiritual health (called Life-Orientation). They also expressed how each area reflected their personal experience most of the time (called Spiritual Health). Extensive factor analysis enabled the original 60-item instrument to be reduced to a reliable, compact 25-item Spiritual Health And Life-Orientation Measure (SHALOM for short). Analysis of variance and t-tests revealed significant variations between students’ views when compared by school type, gender, and year level. SHALOM has advantages over previous instruments in that it is balanced across the four domains of spiritual well-being, is more sensitive, and it compares people’s stated ideal position, with their lived experience, not others’, in determining the quality of relationships which constitute their spiritual well-being.

Efficient data structures for modelling the combination of three-dimensional DTM and CAS data

- Warren Walker, Lloyd

  • Authors: Warren Walker, Lloyd
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: "The overall aim of this research is to develop efficient data structures, algorithms and techniques that can be used to model the combination of artificial structures and realistic terrain."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Employer associations - poised to deliver a much improved OHS performance in Australian workplaces

- Mannes, Dave

  • Authors: Mannes, Dave
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: "The broad objective of this study is to explore the role that employer associations can play in delivering an active and sustainable range of OHS services to industry and the potential for greater utilisation of this network by governments in delivering significant improvements in OHS performance in Australian workplaces."
  • Description: Masters

Estimation of population using satellite imagery

- Harvey, Jack

  • Authors: Harvey, Jack
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , PhD
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  • Description: The basic aims of this research were twofold; to extend and refine statistical image analysis methodologies for directly estimating small area populations and population densities from Landsat TM images and to validate procedures developed and to explore their robustness to geographical and seasonal differences within Australia, and hence to explore the potential of this methodology to provide a genuine operational alternative to existing methods of population estimation."
  • Description: Doctor of Philosophy

Learning through multimedia : the roles of prior knowledge and approaches to learning

- Ollerenshaw, Alison

  • Authors: Ollerenshaw, Alison
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: The effects of text-supplementing illustrations have been generally well etablished (Mayer, Bove, Bryman, Mars & Tapangco, 1996). However, these effects are not universal, and are influenced by learner factors including student approaches to learning and prior knowldge (Ollerenshaw, Aidman & Kidd, 1997)....
  • Description: Master of Applied Science (Psychology)

Long-term land subsidence and strata compression in Changzhou, China

- Wang, Guang-ya, You, Greg, Shi, Bin, Yu, Jun, Tuck, Michael

  • Authors: Wang, Guang-ya , You, Greg , Shi, Bin , Yu, Jun , Tuck, Michael
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Engineering Geology Vol. 104, no. (1999), p. 109–118
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  • Description: Changzhou City, underlain by a multi-layered aquifer system in Quaternary sediments in the Great Yangtze River Delta region, experienced a maximum land subsidence rate of 147 mm/year in the early 1980s due to excessive groundwater extraction. A large-scale monitoring station of 11 borehole extensometerswas established in the city in 1983 to investigate land subsidence. Nine stratawere predetermined in the Quaternary depth interval andmonitored by borehole extensometers. Presented in this paper are the long-term observations of land subsidence, strata compression and groundwater level in four aquifers from 1984 to 2002, and discussion on strata compression based on the measured data with reference to the stratigraphy, soil properties, groundwater withdrawn and literature of similar situations. The compression of strata varies significantly and is strongly influenced by groundwater drawdown in the second confined aquifer, or CA2. The groundwater level in CA2 declined from −55 m in 1981 to −76 m in 1994 and the land subsidence rate remained high. After the city government enforced restrictions on groundwater extraction in 1995, the extraction rate sharply reduced, the groundwater level in CA2 steadily recovered to −56 m until 2003, and the land subsidence rate declined to 10 mm/year in 2002. From 1984 to 2002, the land subsidence was mainly attributed to the consolidation of the thick aquitard overlying CA2. In the future, to prevent the subsidence rate from rising, it is vital to stop groundwater drawdown in aquifers.

The experiences which influence the decisions made by third year undergraduate nursing students to choose psychiatric nursing as a speciality area of practice

- Warner, Jackie

  • Authors: Warner, Jackie
  • Date: 1999
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: The purpose of this study is to look at the reasons why few students are choosing to enter the field of psychiatric nursing. The aim is to identify issues of concern and make recommendations to rectify the situation regarding the shortage of psychiatric nurses.
  • Description: Master of Nursing

Being human, becoming whole : Understanding spiritual health and well- being

- Fisher, John

  • Authors: Fisher, John
  • Date: 2000
  • Type: Text , Journal article
  • Relation: Journal of Christian Education Vol. 43, no. 3 (2000), p. 37-52
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  • Description: This chapter discusses what spirituality is and its place in education. Topics discussed are interest in spirituality, the nature of spirituality, dimensions of health, spiritual health and well being, and a model of spiritual health. Spirituality is innate, emotive, subjective, dynamic and not religion. Spiritual health and well being are reflected in the quality of relationships in four domains of human existence - people with themselves, with others, with the environment, and with a transcendent other. The model embraces the divergence of world views, beliefs and lived experiences of humanity, as expressed in the knowledge and inspirational aspects of spiritual well being in each of the domains.

Electro-kinetic treatment of a quartz-illite tailing

- Huggins, Grant

  • Authors: Huggins, Grant
  • Date: 2000
  • Type: Text , Thesis , Masters
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  • Description: "The purpose of the study is to determine what use electro-kinetics may have to the minefilling process. It also examines what possible use it may have in other mining areas, where stabilising fine soils can improve the mining process. A review of minefilling methods and the general use of electro-kinetics is performed to support this examination."
  • Description: Master of Engineering Science

Enhancing university students’ spiritual well-being

- Fisher, John